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Empathy : a history / Susan Lanzoni.

By: Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300222685
  • 0300222688
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 152.4/1 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.E55 L36 2018
Contents:
Part I Empathy as the art of movement -- The roots of einfühlung or empathy in the arts -- From einfühlung to empathy -- Empathy in art and modern dance -- Part II Making empathy scientific -- The limits of empathy in schizophrenia -- Empathy in social work and psychotherapy -- Measuring empathy -- Part III Empathy in culture and politics -- Popular empathy -- Empathy, race, and politics -- Empathic brains.
Summary: Empathy: A History tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung or "in-feeling" in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. -- Publisher description.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BF575 .E55 L36 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001456812

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-379) and index.

Part I Empathy as the art of movement -- The roots of einfühlung or empathy in the arts -- From einfühlung to empathy -- Empathy in art and modern dance -- Part II Making empathy scientific -- The limits of empathy in schizophrenia -- Empathy in social work and psychotherapy -- Measuring empathy -- Part III Empathy in culture and politics -- Popular empathy -- Empathy, race, and politics -- Empathic brains.

Empathy: A History tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung or "in-feeling" in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. -- Publisher description.

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